单词 | aesthesia |
释义 | aesthesiaesthesian. Medicine. Now rare. Sensory capacity or ability of an organism, organ, etc.; an instance of this. Also: a physical sensation (normal or abnormal). Cf. aesthesis n. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [noun] passibilitya1398 passibleness?a1425 sensibleness?a1425 sensibility?c1425 sense1538 perceptibility1642 sensitiveness1651 passivity1664 aesthesia1829 sentience1839 sentiencya1850 sensitivity1856 sensation1869 1829 London Encycl. XIV. 39/2 Æsthesia, among almost all the nosologists, imports sensation generally: and hence dysæsthesiæ is employed..as the name of an order comprising diseases of sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. 1884 Detroit Lancet 7 391/2 Wille lays much stress on the existence of the headache, æsthesias, etc., and believes..that progressive paresis in a man under twenty-one is always of syphilitic origin. 1901 E. A. Ayers Physical Diagnosis Obstetr. iv. 93 The variations of esthesia of the vagina are due to three distinct conditions. 1909 Ann. Ophthalmol. 18 209 The energy of the sound waves which strike the organ of hearing may give rise to divers subjective sensations, as algias, spasms or simple reflex esthesias. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Jan. 17/3 A general aesthesia akin to that of a creature in which the special sense organs are not yet differentiated. 2006 J. Verrips in O. Löfgren & R. R. Wilk Off Edge 34/2 It would certainly be rewarding to have a look at all the forms of ‘aesthesia’ distinguished in the medical sciences, such as hypoaesthesia, poly-aesthesia, pseudo-aesthesia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > see alsoalso refers to : -aesthesia-esthesiacomb. form < see also |
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